Malcolm X Quotes

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• What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
• Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
• Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience…
• The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to…
• We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have…
• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe…
• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces…
• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim…
• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make…
• I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can…
• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro.…
• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is…
• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that…
• My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he…
• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America…
• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should…
• We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a…
• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what…
• I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create…

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